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 Package: bench
 Title: High Precision Timing of R Expressions
-Version: 1.1.3
+Version: 1.1.3.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jim", "Hester", role = "aut"),
     person("Davis", "Vaughan", , "davis@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
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+# bench (development version)
+
 # bench 1.1.3
 
 * Long unnamed `bench_expr` expressions are now truncated correctly when used as